Policeman tells how he caught Jimmy Savile with a girl in a car and he said: I'm waiting for midnight when it's her 16th birthday

THE retired officer who was just a young policeman in Leeds at the time has told how Savile was above the law.

Cop found Savile in a layby with a young teenage girl in his white Rolls-Royce (Photo: Daily Mirror)

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JIMMY Savile told a cop who caught him with a young girl in his Rolls-Royce to “get on your bike and f*** off if you want to keep your job”.

The young officer in Savile’s home city of Leeds asked the pervert what he was up to, and he replied: “I’m waiting for midnight. It’s her 16th birthday tomorrow.”

Savile then told the cop to get lost, and he obeyed – because he feared the sack.

The incident happened 48 years ago in Savile’s home city of Leeds. The DJ went on to rape 34 victims and molest up to 450, including children as young as eight.

The policeman, now retired, broke his long silence yesterday after news broke that an inspector from his old force, West Yorkshire, is being investigated over claims he tried to interfere with a Surrey Police investigation of Savile in 2009.

Paul Leonard (name changed) said: “There wasn’t a copper in Leeds who didn’t know Savile was a pervert. We all knew he liked them young.

“But he was so well connected. In Leeds at the time, he was like a superstar. The police were in the palm of his hand.”

Paul was on patrol in Leeds in 1965 when he spotted Savile’s white Rolls-Royce in a layby at 11.45pm.

“I didn’t know what he was talking about at first, then he gave me this wink, and I realised.

“Savile looked at me and told me to p*** off. Then he said, ‘If you want to keep your job I suggest you get on your bike and f*** off’.

“He wasn’t angry. It was more like bragging. I was only young and worried about my job, so I left.

“Looking back I feel bad about it, but he had so much influence.”

Paul, who contacted Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine show, said he told his sergeant what had happened.

But the sergeant cut him off, saying: “Shut up son, he’s got friends in high places. If you know what’s good for you, you’ll leave it there.”

A former West Yorkshire inspector is being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission over claims he contacted Surrey Police inappropriately before they interviewed Savile about abuse claims in 2009.

West Yorkshire Police refused to comment. They say an investigation this year found no evidence their officers protected Savile.